Top 4 Dirtiest Corners of Your Kitchen

Top 4 Dirtiest Corners of Your Kitchen

Kitchen contamination isn’t just true in the restaurants and fast food chains. When we get sick because of our food intake, our own home kitchen is also probably to blame!

Nope, we should not just look at the stains on the kitchen floor or how much unwashed dishes there are. Bacteria lurk in the most impossible areas of our kitchen. Teaching cleanliness and hygiene to our maid should be our top priority when she first joins our family.

To all employers and housekeepers, this list is really a must-tell to our maids:

Top 4 dirtiest corners of your kitchen:

1. In and around the sink

After we had that sumptuous meal, the tiniest food crumbs are trapped in the sink after the maid washed the dishes.

Together with these dirt are fecal bacteria and E. coli.

What our maid should do:

> Microorganisms love to breed in wet places. Our maid should sanitize the inside and spots around the sink. > Making sure, that the soaps, dishwashers, and sanitizers are always refilled will also lessen the bacteria.

2. Sponges and cloths

These two items get the most contact with skin and water among all the other items in the kitchen and obviously the smallest attention.

That’s a bad news for our maid who always do the washing and wiping of dishes. She gets the staphilococcus bacteria and fecal coliforms which lived in sponges.

What our maid should do:

> We suggest washing the dishcloths everyday and dry them in the sun. Exposing it in high temperature will kill germs. > Sponges can also be microwaved for a minute everyday to get rid of the harmful pathogens. > We also recommend replacing your sponge at least once a week or two.

3. The refrigerator

The fridge has all kinds of raw ingredients and meat stored in it. Imagine the danger we are putting our family into if its cleanliness is not maintained.

What our maid should do:

> Study finds that more than 90% of homes are actually storing their meat wrong.

The basic rule is “Meat is stored below and other kinds of food above.”

This is to prevent our raw meat to drop its juices and contaminate the other contents of the fridge. That is a major trigger for bacteria to spread!

> we should teach our maid to always set the temperature of our refrigerator below or at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. A fridge warmer than that can breed bad bacterium.

4. Where bugs breed

We don’t like sharing our food with bugs and we must also not let them spread bad microorganisms.

What our maid should do:

> Let’s set a trap! There are actually a lot of ways to make the bugs vanish:

Examples:
– To trap the cockroaches, we can put food inside the mason jars with its inside rim lined with petroleum jelly. We’ll see them imprisoned inside the jars the following morning.

– Putting cinnamon on ants’ entry way can make them go away.

– Mosquitoes breed in stagnant waters. Instruct our maid clean the gutters frequently so they have nowhere to live!

> Our maid must never give them a reason to eat and live in the kitchen. If food are properly stored, bugs won’t last long.

We hope your maid have taken notice of these areas! We wish you a clean and tidy house through this tips.

Consider hiring a maid to maintain a tidy household environment. Eden Grace Maids offers manpower help that can carry out your family’s daily organizing and household chores routines. You wouldn’t have to worry about your household chores when you have someone trained and taught to take care of your household burdens! We look forward to serving you!